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". – The Commission replied in its final consolidated report to Parliament's report on BSE of 1997 by setting an ambitious work programme. In two more biannual follow-up reports to Parliament it gave a broad overview of the emergency measures taken to combat BSE, to increase the safety of animal feed and to implement the new approach in the fields of scientific advice, risk analysis and inspection.
The Commission services have since been restructured to assure the independence and transparency of the scientific committees, the reinforcement of the inspectorate and the separation of consumer protection from the markets.
A solid body of legislative measures has been introduced on which the Commission has regularly reported to Parliament. These measures include, for example, the requirement to remove and destroy specified risk materials, to pressure-cook animal waste and to actively survey the animal populations for the presence of TSEs. The Commission has also made use of the new legal provision of the Treaty of Amsterdam to propose regulations under the codecision procedure on the prevention and control of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and on the processing of animal by-products. These regulations will bring together in a single substantive legal text a wide range of measures which are currently based on safeguard provisions of Community veterinary legislation. If the negotiations run their course as expected, the regulation on TSEs should be adopted next month.
The proposed regulation on animal by-products is expected to be voted on by Parliament shortly. In the meantime, the Commission continues to monitor the situation on the spot, requesting scientific advice and taking legal measures whenever needed. The evidence resulting from the very regular visits of the Food and Veterinary Office and the scientific opinions of the Scientific Steering Committee has become the basis for the consumer protection policy of the Commission."@en1
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